Feed me!! Surfing along for RSS news feeds, my first stop was the Bloglines search tool. A bit of stumbling was involved, as the beginning of my search somehow yielded only feeds already existing on my own blog. Once I determined how to go about searching RSS feeds on the entire Internet, I was off and running!
After posting a couple of feeds from Hawaiian newspapers (go figure!), I took a walk along the beach to the next cabana: Topix.net. There I did a search for the word "retro", and lo and behold, one of my hits was that of yet another Hawaiian newspaper, the Star Bulletin. I loaded them into the old list of feeds. On Topix, I found that I was able to search phrases in quotes, as may be true of all other rss feed search tools. But with the hits I received from Topix, on some I never could locate the actual link to a feed on the site. And quite by accident, the Topix site automatically provided me with a feed just sitting there on the page for Scottsdale News. I gobbled that one up.
After posting a couple of feeds from Hawaiian newspapers (go figure!), I took a walk along the beach to the next cabana: Topix.net. There I did a search for the word "retro", and lo and behold, one of my hits was that of yet another Hawaiian newspaper, the Star Bulletin. I loaded them into the old list of feeds. On Topix, I found that I was able to search phrases in quotes, as may be true of all other rss feed search tools. But with the hits I received from Topix, on some I never could locate the actual link to a feed on the site. And quite by accident, the Topix site automatically provided me with a feed just sitting there on the page for Scottsdale News. I gobbled that one up.
I liked searching Bloglines and Topix for rss feeds, but Syndic8 was a whole other story. Not a fan. Aesthetically unpleasant, not a big performer with results. Yucky in general. And finally, Technorati, yet another search tool for these links. Useful, easy to use. On that site I indulged myself and searched, located and posted a link to the blog of an American Idol fan. Go Daniel Archuleta!
